spencer chang

@spencer.place

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software you can touch artist, engineer, toymaker 🌐 spencer.place (home) 🧭 wewere.online (a game across the internet) 🛝 playhtml.fun (turn any website into a public space) 📱 shrine.computer (interactive sculpture protocol) 🥠 internetsculptures.com (shop)

Screenshot of a San Francisco Arts Commission Visual Arts Committee meeting video page. At the top, Spencer Chang stands at a microphone in a hearing room with rows of red chairs behind him. A video caption reads “Golden Gate Park Temporary Installation by Spencer Chang,” dated 6/23/26. Below the video, the page title says “RESCHEDULED Arts Commission Visual Arts Committee,” with navigation buttons for Index, Share, Download, and Embed. The agenda list shows item 9 highlighted: “Golden Gate Park Temporary Installation by Spencer Chang.”
a screenshot of the article saying: We are all so online, yet being online feels so solitary. Social media is designed for content consumption, brand distribution, and prestige broadcasting, not the warm, funny, and weird moments that happen when humans simply exist together. We’ve been conditioned to think the Internet can’t be changed, but all our current interfaces—infinite feeds, follower counts, black-box algorithms—are features created by social media platforms to optimize their metrics. Just as they were made, they can also be transformed. Like guerrilla public improvement projects put benches in public spaces, repopulate foliage in neglected intersections, or transform dumping sites into neighborhood gathering spots, we can also retrofit and reshape our digital space. So what would an Internet that actually encourages these encounters feel like? Where can we sit together on the internet? How do we discover a new neighborhood, shelter under a bodega awning during a summer shower, sit quietly at a cafe and work among the chatter of strangers?
a screenshot of spencer's website that shows a chat box labeled "spencer.place chat" someone labeled yellow-green dot has said "nice page!"
an iMessage-like interface showing latest messages from the bluesky firehose coming in as different contacts from each account
Screenshot of an online shopping cart page titled “Shopping Cart.” The page shows a “Fast Order Pad” section and a table listing two metal rod items with small product images on the left. Each row includes description, SKU, manufacturer, supplier (FNL Supply Chain), quantity controls with plus and minus buttons, price per item, extended quantity, and total price. The first item totals $21.70 and the second totals $46.12. A red trash icon appears at the right of each row to remove the item. At the bottom right, the subtotal reads “Sub Total (USD): $67.82.” Green “Checkout” buttons appear near the top and bottom of the cart.
a picture of a promo logo for "we were online" it shows a pixelated cursor reaching out towards a human hand with cursor trails in the background
a screenshot of a yellow mouse cursor with googl-ey eyes on it
a video showing two windows of spencer.place. over the course of the video, one orange cursor is labeled "spencer" and when it arrives on the page, there is a notification saying "spencer is home" and spencer's cursor is shown waving, dancing, & spinning on both screens
a screenshot from the anime/manga Blue Period showing a male high school student standing in a classroom with the caption "Isn't it just natural to put everything you have into pursuing your passion"
a screen recording of a website showing a bunch of rectangles of varying sizes appearing and showing scroll animations
a screenshot of a website labeled "cursor bar" in the corner. there's an orange cursor in the middle and 4 beers set on a wooden countertop at the bottom of the screen
a screenshot of a youtube video title "strapping and moving large pond boulders"
a picture of a grid of gray pillows for your phone they each have a bright yellow fabric label in the middle